21st Century Learning

How do we as Catholic schools define 21st Century Skills? How do others define 21st Century Skills? Check out the information below and add your own as this relates to our PreK - 12 Catholic schools.

• Take this surveyto find out where you are with 21st Century Skills.
• Here is a Framework for 21st Century Learning from The Partnership for 21st Century Learning.
• This is an article entitled What Every 21st Century Educator Should Knowby Cheryl Lemke.
• Milestones for Improving Learning and Education Guide is now available through The Partnership for 21st Century. Located at this site is a MILE Guide Self Assessment Survey to match. This tool--available for free from the P21 Web site--allows school districts and dioceses to plot where they are today and set a course for future integration of 21st century skills into systems of learning.

Resources that may be of interest

Are Schools Preparing Students for the 21st Century?
21st Century Skills - Will Our Students Be Prepared?

This is a free poster of what a 21st Century kid looks like from FableVision.

The Moment of Change
One Catholic school's technology vision
ASCD has a series of articles on meeting 21st Century challenges - Here is one example about Shaping Curriculum to Meet 21st Century Challenges
ACOT2 - Below is a Whitepaper entitled Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow - Today - Learning in the 21st Century. From this whitepaper, you will find a reference to the new models image below.




Source: Richardson, W. (2006). Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms:
Transforming teaching. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.